Dissertation Examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Management

Exploring Hopes and Fears From Supply Chain Innovations: An Analysis of Antecedents and Consequences of Supply Chain Knowledge Exchanges

This dissertation sheds light on several hopes and fears from supply chain innovation in three distinct papers.

Paper one introduces the concept of Process Innovation Propagation as an appropriation technique helping to extract the most returns out of a process innovation by exporting to supply chain partners. Paper two devises and empirically tests knowledge properties that best lead to radical and incremental supply chain innovative capabilities. Lastly, paper three conducts an exploratory study that introduces factors affecting a firm’s optimum supply chain innovation strategy. The dissertation makes a strong argument that supply chain innovation is most prominently governed by power asymmetry that may either help or hurt innovative performance.

Chair

Dr. Christopher Alcantara

Advisor

Dr. Hamid Noori

Committee

Dr. Kalyani Menon

Dr. Kevin Hendricks

Dr. Ignacio Castillo

Dr. Marc Kilgour

External

Dr. Moren Lévesque

(York University)

Dissertation will be on deposit in the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and available for perusal.